Healing Trauma
by Peter A. Levine Ph.D. · first published 2008
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I too found the book extremely helpful and informative. A therapist I know recommended a companion book by Peter Levine called Healing Trauma (ISBN: 9781591796589), also available on YT as an audio book. It uses mental imagery as a way of relieving the symptons of trauma without having to relive the actual event(s). Although some of the imagery…
on “The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary” ↗Relevant related book: The Body Keeps the Score https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/01...
on “Book Review: Unlearn Your Pain (2016)” ↗…it motivate you to take retributive action is of course not something to do if one wants to escape the cycle of abuse, but regardless: the body keeps the score https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/01...
on “Why forgiving someone else is about you” ↗I cannot point to any research papers, but here are a few books if you are curious: - Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma and Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body by Dr. Peter Levine - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D Some other keywords to research: complex trauma or CPTSD, somatic experiencing…
on “Ketamine therapy is going mainstream” ↗…overcome it (it’s very different from traditional talk therapy, which is mostly focused on getting people to cope with their past trauma rather than resolve it). https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/01...
on “Anthony Bourdain has died” ↗…go from below average to far above average. Feel free to email me if you want details, I had to become well versed at it out of necessity more than anything. [1]https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/B0... [2] http://addcentre.com/page-34/page-28/media.html
on “A new form of brain stimulation relieved severe depression in a small study” ↗…old (10 years this year!), with more strategies and research done on top of it by other psychologists since then. [0] Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/01... [1] Running on Empty by Jonice Webb & Christine Musello https://www.amazon.com/Running-Empty-Overcome-Childhood-Emot...
on “Telling your inner critic to chill” ↗…Amazon[1] where the author openly tells stories of rape and incest and somehow it's all Ok. Pretty much the same as Game of Thrones and those Steam games. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/01...
on “Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games” ↗